The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice
Language: English
Published by Longman Pub Group, 1849
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- Title
- The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice
- Author
- Saleebey, Dennis [Editor]
- Publisher
- Longman Pub Group
- Publication year
- 1849
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801305497
- ISBN 13
- 9780801305498
- Dimensions
- 0x6x9
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From the Back Cover
Highlights of the Fourth Edition
Six New Chapters
- “Shifting our Habits of Mind: Learning to Practice from a Strengths Perspective” (Chapter 2) examines how social work practice was historically a more problem-focused profession and the how the current shift towards strengths plays an important part in our work.
- “Solving Problems from a Strengths Perspective” explores, with relevant examples, how a practitioner can take a perspective on problems that leads to strengths-based and solution-focused practices.
- “Strengths-Based Case Management: Enhancing Work with Persons with Substance Abuse Problems” (Chapter 8) explores the further extensions of and developments in this important and ground-breaking work.
- “The Resilience of Families” (Chapter11) examines those factors that promote family resilience and how they can be applied in practice.
- “Consciousness and Commitment: Slave Narratives in Today’s Movement to End Poverty” (Chapter12) applies the lessons of the resistance movements of slaves in order to develop effective and strengths-based strategies for ending poverty.
- “Honoring Philosophical Traditions: The Strengths Model and the Social Environment” (Chapter 14) presents the strongest and clearest relationship between environmental resources and individual strengths in practicing from the strengths perspective.
- Extensive revisions of existing chapters make this a fresh, more up-to-date book that retains the passion and sensibilities of the previous editions but with innovative examples and revised, more current bibliographies.
Social Work Skills Demonstrated: Beginning Direct Practice CD-ROM with Student Manual, Second Edition
Linda K. Cummins, Barry University
Judith A. Sevel, Illinois State University
Laura Pedrick, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
A practical guide to development of crucial social work skills including basic counseling and interviewing techniques, in a CD-ROM format with companion student manual that allows students to work at their own pace. Social Work Skills Demonstrated: Beginning Direct Practice CD-ROM with Student Manual is available at a discount when packaged with this text: 0-205-47316-4.
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